Recent content on Elsewhere by Graham Reid tagged as the good the bad and the ugly.
THE BRAVADOS and BANDOLERO! (DVD): Westerns of the outlaw kind
The early years of the 21st century saw a revival of gritty, realistic and unglamorous westerns with morally ambivalent characters.
Clint Eastwood (of course) had set the tone in the early Nineties with Unforgiven; Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall resurrected the genre to great critical if not commercial success in 2004 with Open...
> culturalelsewhere/2691/the-bravados-and-bandolero-dvd-westerns-of-the-outlaw-kind/
DEADWOOD; TIMOTHY OLYPHANT INTERVIEWED (2006): It's always the quiet ones . . .
There are few more quiet characters on television than Sheriff Seth Bullock who broods with repressed menace throughout the gritty Western series Deadwood. His dialogue usually comes down to a few lines like, “I appreciate your kind concern” or “Don’t!”
Yet get 38-year old actor Timothy Olyphant -- who plays...
> culturalelsewhere/2309/deadwood-timothy-olyphant-interviewed-2006-its-always-the-quiet-ones/
